Faster Than a Speeding Atom, Physicists Plan New Collider

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Wendy Pollack

Jan 24, 2008 11:50 am ET

Even before the world’s largest particle accelerator starts smashing subatomic matter this summer, scientists have hatched plans for a more powerful machine that could slam together even smaller particles, physicists Barry Barish, Nicholas Walker and Hitoshi Yamamoto report in Scientific American (subscription required). The nearly $4 billion Large Hadron Collider that is set to come […]